Your Top 10 Films You've Yet to See

[B-side]

Nothing serious. It's kinda fun. Rank the top 10 films you haven't seen yet, meaning 10 films you're really looking forward to that you're certain you'll love. Stole it from RT. People seem to enjoy it. Here's the one I came up with:

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)
Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette, 1974)
Scenes from a Marriage TV (Bergman, 1973)
My Nights are More Beautiful Than Your Days (Zulawski, 1989)
Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos, 1995)
Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, 1970)
Orpheus (Cocteau, 1950)
The Human Condition (Kobayashi, 1959-1961)
Quintet (Altman, 1979)

[trotchky]

1. The White Ribbon
2. Antichrist
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. Enter the Void
5. Funny People
6. WR - Mysteries of the Organism
7. Paris, Texas
8. My Dinner With Andre
9. Benny's Video
10. The Elephant Man

[Qrazy]

For the love of God take Zabriskie Point and Celine and Julie off your list! I have a better list on a different computer but winging it...

1. Winter Light (Bergman)
2. Morning Patrol (Nikolaidis)
3. Charulata (Ray)
4. Muriel (Resnais)
5. Time Regained (Ruiz)
6. City of Sadness (Hou)
7. The Seventh Companion (German)
8. Madadayo (Kurosawa)
9. The Circus (Chaplin)
10. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)

[B-side]

For the love of God take Zabriskie Point and Celine and Julie off your list! I have a better list on a different computer but winging it...

1. Winter Light (Bergman)
2. Morning Patrol (Nikolaidis)
3. Charulata (Ray)
4. Muriel (Resnais)
5. Time Regained (Ruiz)
6. City of Sadness (Hou)
7. The Seventh Companion (German)
8. Madadayo (Kurosawa)
9. The Circus (Chaplin)
10. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)

I can't imagine you not liking Winter Light, Time Regained and The Circus.

I know you're not a fan of Celine and Julie or Zabriskie Point, but I think I'll like them, or at least I hope I do.

[soitgoes...]

Hastily put together:

La dolce vita (Fellini)
I Am Cuba (Kalatozov)
An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu)
Greed (von Stroheim)
Dekalog (Kieslowski)
Stardust and Tinsel (Bergman)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
An Actor's Revenge (Ichikawa)
Threepenny Opera (Pabst)
Birth of a Nation (Griffith)

[B-side]

Hastily put together:

Greed (von Stroheim)
Birth of a Nation (Griffith)

I gotta see these 2. Is it bad that silent films still kinda intimidate me, even after all this time watching older films?:lol:

[trotchky]

Birth of a Nation is so awful (and not just because it led to the biggest boom in Klan membership in the first quarter of the 20th Century lol).

[MadMan]

Can I have a top 1,000? :P

[Boner M]

Can I have a top 1,000? :P
Madman, why would you want to limit yourself like that?

[MadMan]

Madman, why would you want to limit yourself like that?Well, I have to start somewhere.

[Boner M]

Anyway, my list:

1. Jeanne Dielman
2. The Mother and the Whore
3. Madame de...
4. Pather Panchali
5. The Hustler
6. Memories of Underdevelopment
7. Napoleon (Gance)
8. Shoeshine
9. Vive L'amour
10. Anything by Nagisa Oshima

[Dukefrukem]

1. Antichrist
2. Avatar
3. Up
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. The Shawshank Redemption

[Skitch]

Split between my anticipation and my netflix list...


1. Avatar
2. Fanboys
3. Outlaw
4. Essex Boys
5. Death Note 2: The Last Name
6. Noises Off!
7. Time Code
8. Southern Comfort
9. Soylent Green
10. The Reader

[Raiders]

Jeanne Dielman, or anything by Chantal Akerman
Floating Clouds, or anything by Mikio Naruse
Shinji Aoyama's Eureka
Tokyo Sonata
Nathalie Granger or India Song
Robert Aldrich's Twilight's Last Gleaming
A City of Sadness
Onibaba or Naked Island; anything by Kaneto Shindo
Love Streams
F.W. Murnau's Burning Soil

[Ezee E]

I'll go off my Netflix and not include movies coming out in the theater:

-Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (not on Netflix :( )
-Winter Light
-The Ninth Configuration
-Wages of Fear
-Men With Guns (n/a)
-My Life To Live (n/a)
-Nostalghia
-Mishima: Life in Four Chapters
-Salo (to see what the fuss is about)
-Walkabout

[Skitch]

-The Ninth Configuration


Great flick.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Brief Encounter
Eyes Without a Face
Koyaanasquatsi
Manhattan
Mean Streets
My Neighbor Totoro
[Rec]
Solaris
The Third Man
Umberto D

[Bosco B Thug]

First films to come to my head, ranked:

1. Bad Timing (Roeg)
2. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
3. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
4. Dancer in the Dark (Von Trier)
5. La dolce vita (Fellini)
6. Fool for Love (Altman)
7. The Lovely Bones (Jackson)
8. Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (Hillcoat)
9. Life is Sweet (Leigh)
10. Loft (K. Kurosawa) ("love" with knowing reservations)

[Philosophe_rouge]

Kes (Ken Loach)
3 Women (Robert Altman)
Faust (F.W. Murnau)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch)
Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Václav VorlÃ*cek)
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
A Woman Under Influence (John Cassavetes)
Sauve qui Peut (Jean-Luc Godard)

[eternity]

1. How should I know?
2. How should I know?
3. How should I know?
4. How should I know?
5. How should I know?
6. How should I know?
7. How should I know?
8. How should I know?
9. How should I know?
10. How should I know?

[Sycophant]

What a statement, eternity!

1. Tokyo Sonata
2. Husbands & Wives
3. Nashville
4. The Godfather, Part II
5. Sugar
6. Man on Wire
7. Spring in a Small Town
8. Solaris (Tarkvosky)
9. Malcolm X
10. The Lower Depths (Kurosawa)

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. How should I know?
2. How should I know?
3. How should I know?
4. How should I know?
5. How should I know?
6. How should I know?
7. How should I know?
8. How should I know?
9. How should I know?
10. How should I know?

I just pulled the ten flicks I'm most interested in from my Netflix queue.

[Ivan Drago]

1. Straw Dogs
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3. Double Indemnity
4. Hard Eight
5. The Apartment
6. The Seven Samurai
7. Rashomon
8. Pierrot Le Fou
9. Jules and Jim
10. The 400 Blows

[Raiders]

1. How should I know?
2. How should I know?
3. How should I know?
4. How should I know?
5. How should I know?
6. How should I know?
7. How should I know?
8. How should I know?
9. How should I know?
10. How should I know?

Is it too complicated for you? Shall we re-word the title to "top ten films you most want to see?"

[Qrazy]

What a statement, eternity!

1. Tokyo Sonata
2. Husbands & Wives
3. Nashville
4. The Godfather, Part II
5. Sugar
6. Man on Wire
7. Spring in a Small Town
8. Solaris (Tarkvosky)
9. Malcolm X
10. The Lower Depths (Kurosawa)

Yeah I really need to see Husbands and Wives as well. One of the few major Allen's I haven't tackled. I'm actually quite a fan of The Lower Depths. It's not a major Kurosawa per se but I prefer it to The Bad Sleep Well, Drunken Angel, Stray Dog and The Idiot.

[soitgoes...]

Birth of a Nation is so awful.
It's a film I feel I should see. I do not expect any sort of greatness outside of its historical importance.

[soitgoes...]

Shinji Aoyama's Eureka
I need/want to see this too.

[Qrazy]

Obscure films I want to see (far from comprehensive):

1. Sult - Carlsen
2. Manila in the Claws of Neon - Brocka
3. Fall of Otrar - Amirkulov
4. The Traveling Executioner - Smight
5. Milestones - Kramer
6. The Golden Antelope - Atamanov
7. The Master and the Margarita - Petrovic
8. La Tregua - Rosi
9. Joen - Yoshida
10. Limite - Peixoto

[Qrazy]

To be honest my list of films to see is absolutely disgusting. I have a word document with close to 5,000 films in it.

[soitgoes...]

To be honest my list of films to see is absolutely disgusting. I have a word document with close to 5,000 films in it.
I once tried to compile a list of films to see, but it got ridiculously out of hand. I realized I was adding more films each day than I would actually be able to watch during the course of a day. I'll never see everything I want to see. Stupid mortality.

[baby doll]

Before the Revolution (Bertolucci)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
Duelle (une quarantaine) (Rivette)
Hammett (Wenders)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard)
Martha (Fassbinder)
Mélo (Resnais)
Noroît (Rivette)
Out 1: Noli me tangere (Rivette)
Out 1: Spectre (Rivette)
Tih Minh (Feuillade)
The Traveling Players (Angelopoulos)

[MacGuffin]

Out 1: Noli me tangere (Rivette)
Out 1: Spectre (Rivette)


Isn't Spectre the same thing only shorter?

[trotchky]

I've heard Spectre is the superior of the two; something about brevity being the soul of wit.

[Derek]

I've heard Spectre is the superior of the two; something about brevity being the soul of wit.

Rivette and brevity are not on speaking terms, so I'd have my doubts about a shorter cut. I know Rosenbaum prefers the longer and that Rivette also made one for La Belle Noiseuse which supposedly isn't nearly as good.

[MacGuffin]

Rivette and brevity are not on speaking terms, so I'd have my doubts about a shorter cut. I know Rosenbaum prefers the longer and that Rivette also made one for La Belle Noiseuse which supposedly isn't nearly as good.

My main gripe with La belle noiseuse is that it's not long enough! I think I would have preferred a bit more content outlining the artistic process, rather than the things that were going on besides that.

[dreamdead]

Since the last time I tried this kind of list (http://match-cut.org/showpost.php?p=76907&postcount=15548), I have knocked off Wages of Fear, O Lucky Man, Killer of Sheep, and Butch Cassidy. Progress, I say. So additions to the list...

1. 12 Angry Men
2. MASH
3. Tokyo Sonata
4. Jeanne Dielman
5. Strike!
6. Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
7. La belle noiseuse
8. Holla! If I Kill You
9. One Fine Spring Day
10. Out of the Past

[soitgoes...]

My main gripe with La belle noiseuse is that it's not long enough! I think I would have preferred a bit more content outlining the artistic process, rather than the things that were going on besides that.
Plus a longer film would mean more naked Béart, because she just wasn't naked enough.

[MacGuffin]

Plus a longer film would mean more naked Béart, because she just wasn't naked enough.

I was going to say something, but I swear, that's not why I'd make it longer! I'd see the movie again sometime, maybe.

[Mysterious Dude]

This used to be a lot more clear to me, but my "movies to see" document has become a total mess over the years. It has three different ranked lists, based on different criteria, a list of movies divided by country, and a chronological list. Here's ten I think I want to see more than the rest.

1. The Travelling Players (1975)
2. Titicut Follies (1967)
3. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
4. Poil de carotte (1932)
5. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
6. A City of Sadness (1989)
7. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
8. An Actor's Revenge (1962)
9. America, America (1963)
10. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

I do have a couple of "official" lists, but I'm not sure how much I really want to see the films on them. The first is based on a consensus of different top 100 lists. The second is based on a combination of three different top 1000 lists (New York Times, They Shoot Pictures, and 1001 Movies You Must See).

1. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
2. Dekalog (1988)
3. Rio Bravo (1959)
4. The Travelling Players (1975)
5. East of Eden (1955)
6. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
7. Written on the Wind (1956)
8. Stalker (1979)
9. Les Vampires (1915)
10. The Band Wagon (1953)

It's a Gift (1934)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
The Band Wagon (1953)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
All That Heaven Allows (1956)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Tristana (1970)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Last Waltz (1978)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Shoah (1985)
Down by Law (1986)
Dekalog (1988)
Hotel Terminus (1988)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)

[Qrazy]

This used to be a lot more clear to me, but my "movies to see" document has become a total mess over the years. It has three different ranked lists, based on different criteria, a list of movies divided by country, and a chronological list. Here's ten I think I want to see more than the rest.

1. The Travelling Players (1975)
2. Titicut Follies (1967)
3. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
4. Poil de carotte (1932)
5. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
6. A City of Sadness (1989)
7. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
8. An Actor's Revenge (1962)
9. America, America (1963)
10. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

I do have a couple of "official" lists, but I'm not sure how much I really want to see the films on them. The first is based on a consensus of different top 100 lists. The second is based on a combination of three different top 1000 lists (New York Times, They Shoot Pictures, and 1001 Movies You Must See).

1. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
2. Dekalog (1988)
3. Rio Bravo (1959)
4. The Travelling Players (1975)
5. East of Eden (1955)
6. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
7. Written on the Wind (1956)
8. Stalker (1979)
9. Les Vampires (1915)
10. The Band Wagon (1953)

It's a Gift (1934)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
The Band Wagon (1953)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
All That Heaven Allows (1956)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Tristana (1970)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Last Waltz (1978)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Shoah (1985)
Down by Law (1986)
Dekalog (1988)
Hotel Terminus (1988)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)

America, America and The Cloud Capped Star are two I've been meaning to see for a while as well. I'm also making my way through those 3 1000 lists.

For what it's worth I'd particularly recommend The Decalogue and Stalker. I love Kazan but East of Eden while good actually lessened in my estimation upon a second viewing. The film feels truncated. Written on the Wind and Letter from an Unknown Woman are also good but not favorites of mine.

Tristana is the least interesting Bunuel I've seen (seen about 15). The Right Stuff is pretty good almost too broad a scope for it's own good... this is both a strength and a weakness. Down By Law is probably my favorite Jarmusch, quite a funny film. The Long Goodbye is great. Dislike Gentlemen Prefer Blondes check out This Sporting Life instead... same atmosphere but the latter is much less obnoxious and funnier. Splendor in the Grass is quite decent, very honest and psychologically open for it's time and beautifully shot, but again I'm a big Kazan fan.

[Qrazy]

Some more:

1. Salo
2. Nanook of the North
3. Hamlet
4. Diary of a Country Priest
5. Pandora's Box
6. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
7. Mon Oncle Antoine
8. El Norte
9. Thief of Bagdad
10. Pierrot le Fou
11. Force of Evil
12. After Life
13. A Passage to India
14. Saragossa Manuscript
15. War and Peace
16. Wanda
17. Marriage of Maria Bruan
18. Salvatore Giuliano
19. The Leopard
20. Miss Julie
21 The Face of Another
22. Fires on the Plain
23. Yi Yi
24. Best of Youth
25. Touch of Zen

[soitgoes...]

Some more:

2. Nanook of the North - meh
3. Hamlet - which one?
5. Pandora's Box - good
6. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs - great
9. Thief of Bagdad - meh
10. Pierrot le Fou - very good
13. A Passage to India - good
17. Marriage of Maria Bruan - very good
19. The Leopard - very good
21 The Face of Another - great
22. Fires on the Plain - great
23. Yi Yi - great
25. Touch of Zen - masterpiece
.

[trotchky]

It's a film I feel I should see. I do not expect any sort of greatness outside of its historical importance.

That makes sense, as it is probably the most important film ever, despite how much it blows.

[Qrazy]

.

Olivier, Original Thief of Bagdad.

[Spinal]

1. Antichrist
2. La commune
3. Downfall
4. Wages of Fear
5. Lenny
6. The Intruder
7. Ordet
8. Saraband
9. All the President's Men
10. Shoeshine

[MacGuffin]

6. The Intruder


Are we talkin' L'intrus by Claire Denis?

[trotchky]

I wish I could go back in time and never see A Clockwork Orange so I could put A Clockwork Orange at the top of my list.

[Qrazy]

1. Antichrist
2. La commune
3. Downfall
4. Wages of Fear
5. Lenny
6. The Intruder
7. Ordet
8. Saraband
9. All the President's Men
10. Shoeshine

Downfall isn't that great. It's pretty good though. The other four are good to great. I also want to see Lenny.

[soitgoes...]

If I had included films not yet released, I'd probably add Antichrist and Avatar.

[Melville]

1. Satantango
2. Pickpocket
3. The Fire Within
4. Mauvais sang
5. Report
6. A City of Sadness, The Time to Live and the Time to Die, or something else by Hou
7. India Song
8. L'Intrus
9. The Decalogue
10. Johnny Guitar

It seems like a lot of us should watch A City of Sadness.


1. Jeanne Dielman
I can't imagine you not loving this. If it were about an hour shorter, it would be one of my favorites.


1. Sult - Carlsen
Didn't you see this like a year ago?

[Eleven]

1. Children of Paradise
2. The Gospel According to Matthew
3. Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
4. L'Eclisse
5. Platform
6. The Big Parade
7. The Music Room
8. Los Angeles Plays Itself
9. Pakeezah
10. Khrustalyov, My Car! (via Qrazy)

[Fezzik]

1. The Orphanage
2. Avatar
3. The Big Sleep
4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
5. Dear Zachary
6. Dark City
7. Rashomon
8. In the Mood For Love
9. The Empire of the Sun
10. The Hobbit

[Qrazy]

1. Satantango
2. Pickpocket
3. The Fire Within
4. Mauvais sang
5. Report
6. A City of Sadness, The Time to Live and the Time to Die, or something else by Hou
7. India Song
8. L'Intrus
9. The Decalogue
10. Johnny Guitar

It seems like a lot of us should watch A City of Sadness.


I can't imagine you not loving this. If it were about an hour shorter, it would be one of my favorites.


Didn't you see this like a year ago?

No I didn't watch it yet because I wanted to read the book first. I still have it though.

[Qrazy]

1. Children of Paradise
2. The Gospel According to Matthew
3. Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
4. L'Eclisse
5. Platform
6. The Big Parade
7. The Music Room
8. Los Angeles Plays Itself
9. Pakeezah
10. Khrustalyov, My Car! (via Qrazy)

Well just to be clear in terms of Aleksei German My Friend Ivan Lapshin is my favorite but Khrustalyov My Car! is fascinating too. I'll start reseeding it now.

[MadMan]

Seriously though, here's a list complied of some movies I put on my Netflix que (both instant and regular), grouped with some other random choices. Its something to post here for now:

1. Le Samourai
2. Being John Malkvoich
3. Heat
4. El Topo
5. Gone Baby Gone
6. Let The Right One In
7. Dead Men's Shoes
8. The Bridge on the River Kwai
9. This Is England
10. Wall-E

[balmakboor]

Hmmm, off the top of my head:

Two-Lane Blacktop
Despair
The Only Son
A Grin Without a Cat
Santantango
Faster, Pusscat! Kill! Kill!
Innocence Unprotected
Woyzeck
High School
Bright Leaves

[Raiders]

A Grin Without a Cat

Ooooh yes, most definitely. That should probably make my list.


Bright Leaves

Please do see this. I thought it was great (http://www.match-cut.org/showthread.php?t=1859).

[Eleven]

High School

*points excitedly*

This one! Go see this one!

[baby doll]

Isn't Spectre the same thing only shorter?Not according to what I've read.

"Part of the fascinating difference between the two films can be seen in the ways that identical footage can often carry disparate meanings and perform radically different dramatic and narrative functions according to its separate placement in each film."

[Spinal]

1. Antichrist
2. La commune
3. Downfall
4. Wages of Fear
5. Lenny
6. The Intruder
7. Ordet
8. Saraband
9. All the President's Men
10. Shoeshine

1. Antichrist
2. La commune
3. Ordet
4. Wages of Fear
5. Downfall
6. Saraband
7. Shoeshine
8. The New World
9. Little Big Man
10. Inglourious Basterds

[BuffaloWilder]

The Godfather Part III.

[Philosophe_rouge]

I still haven't seen any of my list :/

[Derek]

3. Ordet

Ooh, I look forward to your thoughts on this one.


8. The New World

I do not look forward to your thoughts on this one.


5. Downfall
10. Inglourious Basterds

Double bill.

[Spinal]

I do not look forward to your thoughts on this one.


:lol:

But I've liked all the Malick I've seen. Even the one with Richard Gere!

[MadMan]

Seriously though, here's a list complied of some movies I put on my Netflix que (both instant and regular), grouped with some other random choices. Its something to post here for now:

1. Le Samourai
2. Being John Malkvoich
3. Heat
4. El Topo
5. Gone Baby Gone
6. Let The Right One In
7. Dead Men's Shoes
8. The Bridge on the River Kwai
9. This Is England
10. Wall-EOnly seen Le Samourai, which gets a 100 from me, and Gone Baby Gone, which scores a 97. The rest will have to wait, I guess.

And The New World is a really good movie. I liked it, and it was the first (and only) Malick I've seen.

[Spinal]

And The New World is a really good movie. I liked it, and it was the first (and only) Malick I've seen.

I think you would love The Thin Red Line.

[Boner M]

Anyway, my list:

1. Jeanne Dielman
2. The Mother and the Whore
3. Madame de...
4. Pather Panchali
5. The Hustler
6. Memories of Underdevelopment
7. Napoleon (Gance)
8. Shoeshine
9. Vive L'amour
10. Anything by Nagisa Oshima
#1 and 2 knocked off. ***1/2 and **** each. Madame De... this week.

[Winston*]

Something Ozu
Something Cassavetes
Something Fassbinder
Something Mizoguchi
Something Rohmer
Something Bresson
Something Wiseman
Something Tarkvosky
Something Powell and/or Pressburger
Death Race

[MadMan]

I think you would love The Thin Red Line.That's one I've been meaning to get around to, if only for 1998 consenus purposes.


Death RaceWinston hopefully this is the one from 1975, which is awesome, and not the stupid remake.

[balmakboor]

Birth of a Nation is so awful.

No it's not. It's both masterfully made and monumentally misguided by a man who had lived a life of racism for so long that he was blind to the errors of his thinking. Of course, anyone who has seen Intolerance knows that he was a cinematic genius and quite decisively sub-genius as a thinker.

[baby doll]

No it's not. It's both masterfully made and monumentally misguided by a man who had lived a life of racism for so long that he was blind to the errors of his thinking. Of course, anyone who has seen Intolerance knows that he was a cinematic genius and quite decisively sub-genius as a thinker.If by masterfully made, you mean slow as molasses. Intolerance is more impressive for its spectacle, Broken Blossoms has better acting, and Orphans of the Storm is more accomplished as storytelling (read: much faster paced).

[balmakboor]

If by masterfully made, you mean slow as molasses. Intolerance is more impressive for its spectacle, Broken Blossoms has better acting, and Orphans of the Storm is more accomplished as storytelling (read: much faster paced).

I don't remember it being slow and I thought the compositions were quite strong. I do agree though with all of your listed relative evaluations.

I was most impressed (intrigued?, repulsed?) by its odd, through the looking glass perspective on the events. Things like the congressional scene with blacks reclining about eating fried chicken and the climax with the Klan coming to the rescue are just two of many examples of scenes that are so wrong, so very very wrong, that they become magnificently wrong.

I've always described the movie as an essential look into the mind and thought processes of a racist. It always reminds me of one of my grandfathers from Oklahoma who would fill my head and the heads of all the other kids on his street with stories that were gruesomely racist beyond belief. And yet, the kids ate them up and I was pretty conflicted at the time. I was about eight years old and why would my grandfather be lying to me. And yet something just didn't seem right about what he was saying.

Like Griffith, he wasn't lying. He was telling the truth that he had been taught by his parents, teachers, and other authority figures his whole life.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Antichrist
2. Avatar
3. Up
4. Inglourious Basterds
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. The Shawshank Redemption

Still haven't seen any of this.

[Ezee E]

I'll go off my Netflix and not include movies coming out in the theater:

-Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (not on Netflix :( )
-Winter Light
-The Ninth Configuration
-Wages of Fear
-Men With Guns (n/a)
-My Life To Live (n/a)
-Nostalghia
-Mishima: Life in Four Chapters
-Salo (to see what the fuss is about)
-Walkabout

Star 80
The Wrong Man

[balmakboor]

Star 80
The Wrong Man

Did you see what you crossed off? Or did you change your mind?

Both Star 80 and The Wrong Man are pretty awesome btw. Eric Roberts was so ripped off by the Oscars that year.

[Eleven]

1. Children of Paradise
2. The Gospel According to Matthew
3. Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
4. L'Eclisse
5. Platform
6. The Big Parade
7. The Music Room
8. Los Angeles Plays Itself
9. Pakeezah
10. Khrustalyov, My Car! (via Qrazy)

1. The Gospel According to Matthew
2. Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (have in my possession)
3. L'Eclisse
4. Platform
5. The Big Parade
6. The Music Room
7. Los Angeles Plays Itself (have in my possession)
8. Pakeezah
9. Khrustalyov, My Car!
10. The Cloud-Capped Star (have in my possession)

[Ezee E]

Did you see what you crossed off? Or did you change your mind?

Both Star 80 and The Wrong Man are pretty awesome btw. Eric Roberts was so ripped off by the Oscars that year.
Saw those two.

I've heard tons of great things about Eric Roberts in that movie. And Bob Fosse is two for three as far as fantastic movies go. And Cabaret ain't bad either.

[balmakboor]

Saw those two.

I've heard tons of great things about Eric Roberts in that movie. And Bob Fosse is two for three as far as fantastic movies go. And Cabaret ain't bad either.

I'd say Star 80 is Fosse's least great film in the final analysis, but that performance really does hold the tent up high.

So, I guess you now know what all the fuss was about concerning Salo.

[Ezee E]

So, I guess you now know what all the fuss was about concerning Salo.


I did. I was not impressed. I had a discussion with Derek about it that led to him blowing his head off.

[dreamdead]

1. 12 Angry Men
2. MASH
3. Tokyo Sonata
4. Jeanne Dielman
5. Strike!
6. Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
7. La belle noiseuse
8. Holla! If I Kill You
9. One Fine Spring Day
10. Out of the Past

New list:

1. MASH
2. Tokyo Sonata
3. Jeanna Dielman
4. Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
5. La belle noiseuse
6. Holla! If I Kill You
7. One Fine Spring Day
8. Out of the Past
9. Rififi
10. The Best Years of Our Lives

[Grouchy]

1. Scenes from a Marriage
2. Children of Paradise
3. The Mirror
4. Napoleon (Gance)
5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
6. Fanny and Alexander
7. Letter from an Unknown Woman
8. Sherlock Jr.
9. Santantango
10. The Rules of the Game

[dreamdead]

New list:

1. MASH
2. Tokyo Sonata
3. Jeanna Dielman
4. Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
5. La belle noiseuse
6. Holla! If I Kill You
7. One Fine Spring Day
8. Out of the Past
9. Rififi
10. The Best Years of Our Lives

1. MASH
2. Tokyo Sonata
3. Jeanne Dielman
4. La belle noiseuse
5. Holla! If I Kill You
6. One Fine Spring Day
7. Rififi
8. Last Year at Marienbad
9. Mon Oncle
10. Woman in the Dunes

[Spinal]

1. Antichrist
2. La commune
3. Ordet
4. Wages of Fear
5. Downfall
6. Saraband
7. Shoeshine
8. The New World
9. Little Big Man
10. Inglourious Basterds

1. Antichrist
2. La commune
3. Ordet
4. Wages of Fear
5. Saraband
6. Shoeshine
7. The New World
8. Little Big Man
9. Make Way for Tomorrow
10. An Angel at My Table

[B-side]

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)
Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette, 1974)
Scenes from a Marriage TV (Bergman, 1973)
My Nights are More Beautiful Than Your Days (Zulawski, 1989)
Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos, 1995)
Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, 1970)
Orpheus (Cocteau, 1950)
The Human Condition (Kobayashi, 1959-1961)
Quintet (Altman, 1979)

Only seen Orpheus, which was OK. Revised list:

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)
Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette, 1974)
Scenes from a Marriage TV (Bergman, 1973)
Eden and After (Robbe-Grillet, 1970)
Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos, 1995)
Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, 1970)
Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
Masculin féminin (Godard, 1966)
The Human Condition (Kobayashi, 1959-1961)

[Dukefrukem]

1. Antichrist
2. Avatar
3. Up
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Zombieland
6. The Prestige
7.
8.
9.
10. The Shawshank Redemption

[Philosophe_rouge]

Kes (Ken Loach)
3 Women (Robert Altman)
Faust (F.W. Murnau)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch)
Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Václav VorlÃ*cek)
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
A Woman Under Influence (John Cassavetes)
Sauve qui Peut (Jean-Luc Godard)

Woot! I saw two <3

[Eleven]

1. The Gospel According to Matthew
2. Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
3. L'Eclisse
4. Platform
5. The Big Parade
6. The Music Room
7. Los Angeles Plays Itself
8. Pakeezah
9. Khrustalyov, My Car!
10. The Cloud-Capped Star (have in my possession)

1. The Gospel According to Matthew
2. L'Eclisse
3. Platform (have in my possession)
4. The Big Parade
5. The Music Room
6. Pakeezah
7. Khrustalyov, My Car!
8. The Cloud-Capped Star (have in my possession)
9. Berlin Alexanderplatz
10. I am Cuba

[balmakboor]

I'll start playing in earnest. I did watch A Grin Without a Cat from the list I posted in July. It was great.

1. [Rec] - in my possession
2. Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
3. Innocence Unprotected
4. In a Lonely Place
5. Don't Look Now
6. Goodbye Solo
7. Two-Lane Blacktop
8. Eyes Without a Face
9. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
10. The Cranes are Flying

[balmakboor]

1. [Rec] - in my possession
2. Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
3. Innocence Unprotected
4. In a Lonely Place
5. Don't Look Now
6. Goodbye Solo
7. Two-Lane Blacktop
8. Eyes Without a Face
9. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
10. The Cranes are Flying

1. Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
2. Innocence Unprotected
3. In a Lonely Place
4. Don't Look Now
5. Goodbye Solo
6. Two-Lane Blacktop
7. Eyes Without a Face
8. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
9. The Cranes are Flying
10. Bright Leaves

[B-side]

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)
Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
The General (Keaton/Bruckman, 1926)
Scenes from a Marriage TV (Bergman, 1973)
The Man Who Lies (Robbe-Grillet, 1968)
Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos, 1995)
Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, 1970)
Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
Masculin féminin (Godard, 1966)
The Human Condition (Kobayashi, 1959-1961)

[balmakboor]

1. Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
2. Innocence Unprotected
3. In a Lonely Place
4. Don't Look Now
5. Goodbye Solo
6. Two-Lane Blacktop
7. Eyes Without a Face
8. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
9. The Cranes are Flying
10. Bright Leaves

1. In a Lonely Place
2. Don't Look Now
3. Goodbye Solo
4. Two-Lane Blacktop
5. Eyes Without a Face
6. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
7. The Cranes are Flying
8. Bright Leaves
9. Last Year at Marienbad
10. Man Is Not A Bird

[B-side]

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)
Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
The General (Keaton/Bruckman, 1926)
Scenes from a Marriage TV (Bergman, 1973)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975)
Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos, 1995)
Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, 1970)
Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
Masculin féminin (Godard, 1966)
The Human Condition (Kobayashi, 1959-1961)

[Ezee E]

-Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (not on Netflix :( )
-Winter Light
-The Ninth Configuration
-Wages of Fear
-Men With Guns (n/a)
-My Life To Live (n/a)
-Nostalghia
-Mishima: Life in Four Chapters
-Salo (to see what the fuss is about)
-Walkabout
-Star 80
-The Wrong Man
-The Great Dictator

[MadMan]

Old List:

1. Le Samourai-100
2. Being John Malkvoich
3. Heat
4. El Topo
5. Gone Baby Gone-97
6. Let The Right One In-90
7. Dead Men's Shoes
8. The Bridge on the River Kwai
9. This Is England-96
10. Wall-E

Not bad, really. I don't know when I'll get to Heat or The Bridge On the River Kwai due to length reasons, and I'm putting Wall-E on the backburner. Eventually I will view Dead Man's Shoes.

New List:

1. To Live and Die In LA
2. Double Indemmity
3. M
4. Special
5. Being John Malkvoich
6. Wedding Crashers
7. El Topo
8. The Last Days of Disco
9. Once
10. Bad Company (its a western, not the crappy Chris Rock movie)

[Melville]

1. Satantango
2. Pickpocket
3. The Fire Within
4. Mauvais sang
5. Report
6. A City of Sadness, The Time to Live and the Time to Die, or something else by Hou
7. India Song
8. L'Intrus
9. The Decalogue
10. Johnny Guitar

Other than Report, these haven't been living up to my expectations.

[Qrazy]

Some more:

1. Salo
2. Nanook of the North
3. Hamlet
4. Diary of a Country Priest
5. Pandora's Box
6. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
7. Mon Oncle Antoine
8. El Norte
9. Thief of Bagdad
10. Pierrot le Fou
11. Force of Evil
12. After Life
13. A Passage to India
14. Saragossa Manuscript
15. War and Peace
16. Wanda
17. Marriage of Maria Bruan
18. Salvatore Giuliano
19. The Leopard
20. Miss Julie
21 The Face of Another
22. Fires on the Plain
23. Yi Yi
24. Best of Youth
25. Touch of Zen

Wanda and El Norte were above average, sort of underwhelming. Had my issues with Pierrot le Fou. Touch of Zen was quite good but unwieldy and I really liked Fires on the Plain.

[Qrazy]

1. Satantango
2. Pickpocket
3. The Fire Within
4. Mauvais sang
5. Report
6. A City of Sadness, The Time to Live and the Time to Die, or something else by Hou
7. India Song
8. L'Intrus
9. The Decalogue
10. Johnny Guitar

Other than Report, these haven't been living up to my expectations.

Watch The Decalogue. It's good.

[Ezee E]

-Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (not on Netflix :( )
-Winter Light
-The Ninth Configuration
-Wages of Fear
-Men With Guns (n/a)
-My Life To Live (n/a)
-Nostalghia (n/a)
-Mishima: Life in Four Chapters
-Salo (to see what the fuss is about)
-Walkabout

-Star 80
-The Wrong Man
-The Great Dictator
-All About My Mother

[MadMan]

The Ninth Configuration is a great film, and an underrated gem. I think Davis is also a huge fan of it as well.

[The Mike]

I'll do this based on films I own and haven't watched yet:

1) The Outlaw Josey Wales
2) Eraserhead
3) Easy Rider
4) My Darling Clementine
5) Jezebel
6) Black Sabbath
7) Things to Come
8) To Live and Die in L.A.
9) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
10) Warbirds

[MadMan]

I'll do this based on films I own and haven't watched yet:

1) The Outlaw Josey Wales
2) Eraserhead
3) Easy Rider
4) My Darling Clementine
5) Jezebel
6) Black Sabbath
7) Things to Come
8) To Live and Die in L.A.
9) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
10) Warbirds#1 comes highly recommended, as its Clint and one of my all time favorite westerns. Eraserhead is just freakin' weird. Easy Rider is great, and a landmark in cinema. Black Sabbath I only got through the first story, but that entry was awesome. Haven't seen the rest, with To Live and Die in LA up next for me on Netflix.

[Ivan Drago]

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Network
3. Robocop
4. Oldboy
5. 12 Angry Men
6. The Usual Suspects
7. Double Indemnity
8. Crumb
9. Cinema Paradiso
10. The Room

[dreamdead]

1. MASH
2. Tokyo Sonata
3. Jeanne Dielman
4. La belle noiseuse
5. Holla! If I Kill You
6. One Fine Spring Day
7. Rififi
8. Last Year at Marienbad
9. Mon Oncle
10. Woman in the Dunes

1. MASH
2. Tokyo Sonata
3. Jeanne Dielman
4. La belle noiseuse
5. Holla! If I kill You
6. One Fine Spring Day
7. Mon Oncle
8. Woman in the Dunes
9. The Housemaid (1960 Korean film)
10. Notre musique (haven't seen any of Godard's post-1968 work; figure this is a good starting spot)

[B-side]

I liked Notre Musique a lot, but I'm not exactly among a crowd.

[Derek]

10. Notre musique (haven't seen any of Godard's post-1968 work; figure this is a good starting spot)

It's not. There's not a lot widely available on DVD, but from what is, I would check out In Praise of Love first. There's also the amusing and entertaining Meetin' WA (basically an extensive interview w/Woody Allen) on YouTube. Quality's decent at best, but it's not a film that's hurt much by seeing it in that format.

[Bosco B Thug]

How about Godard's 80s/90s stuff? I had better luck "getting" Passion than Notre Musique, I think. NM is just kinda difficult, without the elaborate set pieces of his 80s/90s stuff.

Passion is on R1 DVD, miraculously.

[Derek]

How about Godard's 80s/90s stuff? I had better luck "getting" Passion than Notre Musique, I think. It's on R1 DVD.

The 80s is his weakest stretch in my opinion, but I agree Passion is one of his best post-68 films. Prenom Carmen is okay, Hail Mary and Meetin' WA are good, but the others I've seen from the 80s (Detective, Keep Your Right Up and King Lear are among his very worst. For the 90s, Histoire(s) du Cinema and Nouvelle Vague alone make it a great decade for him.

Dreamdead - I also forgot Tout va Bien was out on DVD. Worth checking out if you're in the mood for a intellectual Brechtian comedy. Plus, it's on Criterion so obviously it looks great.

[Bosco B Thug]

The 80s is his weakest stretch in my opinion, but I agree Passion is one of his best post-68 films. Prenom Carmen is okay, Hail Mary and Meetin' WA are good, but the others I've seen from the 80s (Detective, Keep Your Right Up and King Lear are among his very worst. For the 90s, Histoire(s) du Cinema and Nouvelle Vague alone make it a great decade for him. Only seen Passion (and Sauve qui peut (la vie), which I liked). And Nouvelle Vague is pretty great.

[Derek]

Sauve qui peut (la vie)

I've heard mostly good things about this one. I need to get around to it soon.

[Melville]

Watch The Decalogue. It's good.
Why the three-days-later edit? Do you no longer think it's just what I need? Actually, I can't remember if that's what you had originally said, but it was definitely something more specific than just "good".

[Raiders]

It's not. There's not a lot widely available on DVD, but from what is, I would check out In Praise of Love first.

And then there's me who would recommend just staying away from In Praise of Love altogether.

[Qrazy]

Why the three-days-later edit? Do you no longer think it's just what I need? Actually, I can't remember if that's what you had originally said, but it was definitely something more specific than just "good".

Well since you hadn't responded yet I thought maybe you hadn't read the remark yet, and when I reread the remark I realized it could come across in a tone which I did not intend.

[Melville]

Well since you hadn't responded yet I thought maybe you hadn't read the remark yet, and when I reread the remark I realized it could come across in a tone which I did not intend.
So...will it heal my soul or not?

[Qrazy]

So...will it heal my soul or not?

Well I mean yeah it will, but I retract my earlier presumption as to what it is or is not that you may need. :)

It's great though.

[Melville]

Well I mean yeah it will, but I retract my earlier presumption as to what it is or is not that you may need. :)

It's great though.
:)

Maybe I'll rent them tomorrow. I think I've seen four of the episodes, along with A Short Film About Killing, but I'll probably watch all ten.

[Qrazy]

:)

Maybe I'll rent them tomorrow. I think I've seen four of the episodes, along with A Short Film About Killing, but I'll probably watch all ten.

Cool. The first, fifth and tenth are my favorites. I'm sure I have one or two least favorites but I can't remember them. I prefer the episode about Killing to the feature film personally. I think the feature says more than it needs to while the episode leaves certain plot points ambiguous.

[Boner M]

Sauve qui peut (la vie) is pretty great; that and Passion are my two faves of his 80's period. Prenom Carmen and Hail Mary are pretty good too.

Histoire(s) du cinema is mostly phenomenal. Haven't seen anything else from the 90's, but I've wanted to check out Nouvelle vague and JLG/JLG.

In Praise of Love has some of the most beautiful video imagery ever, but then the people in it open their mouths and the film dies. Notre musique is much better, though I lost a considerable amount of interest after the stunning 'Hell' prologue.

[Yxklyx]

Probably - in no particular order:

The Magnificent Ambersons
Greed
The Wind
The Crowd
Wings
Shoeshine
Life is Sweet
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Johnny Guitar
The 47 Ronin

[Fezzik]

1. The Orphanage
2. Avatar
3. The Big Sleep
4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
5. Dear Zachary
6. Dark City
7. Rashomon
8. In the Mood For Love
9. The Empire of the Sun
10. The Hobbit

1. Chungking Express
2. Avatar
3. The Orphanage
4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
5. Dear Zachary
6. Dark City
7. Rashomon
8. The Visitor
9. The Empire of the Sun
10. The Hobbit

[soitgoes...]

Hastily put together:

La dolce vita (Fellini)
I Am Cuba (Kalatozov)
An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu) - great
Greed (von Stroheim)
Dekalog (Kieslowski)
Stardust and Tinsel (Bergman) - very good
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
An Actor's Revenge (Ichikawa) - great
Threepenny Opera (Pabst)
Birth of a Nation (Griffith) - mediocre

La dolce vita (Fellini)
I Am Cuba (Kalatozov)
Greed (von Stroheim)
Dekalog (Kieslowski)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
Threepenny Opera (Pabst)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
Viaggio in Italia (Rossellini)
Gertrud (Dreyer)
Sans soleil (Marker)

[Dukefrukem]

1. Antichrist
2. Avatar
3. Up
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Zombieland
6. The Prestige
7. There Will Be Blood
8. No Country for Old Men
9. City of God
10. The Shawshank Redemption

updated.

[Qrazy]

1. Salo
2. Nanook of the North
3. Hamlet
4. Diary of a Country Priest
5. Pandora's Box
6. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
7. Mon Oncle Antoine
8. El Norte
9. Thief of Bagdad
10. Pierrot le Fou
11. Force of Evil
12. After Life
13. A Passage to India
14. Saragossa Manuscript
15. War and Peace
16. Wanda
17. Marriage of Maria Bruan
18. Salvatore Giuliano
19. The Leopard
20. Miss Julie
21 The Face of Another
22. Fires on the Plain
23. Yi Yi
24. Best of Youth
25. Touch of Zen

1. Salo
2. Nanook of the North
3. Hamlet
4. Diary of a Country Priest
5. Pandora's Box
6. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
7. Mon Oncle Antoine
8. The Seventh Companion
9. Thief of Bagdad
10. Silence and Cry
11. Marketa Lazarova
12. After Life
13. A Passage to India
14. Saragossa Manuscript
15. War and Peace
16. Three Poplars at Plyuschika
17. Marriage of Maria Bruan
18. Salvatore Giuliano
19. The Leopard
20. Miss Julie
21 The Face of Another
22. Meet Me in Moscow
23. Yi Yi
24. Best of Youth
25. The Organizer

[soitgoes...]

La dolce vita (Fellini)
I Am Cuba (Kalatozov)
Greed (von Stroheim)
Dekalog (Kieslowski)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
Threepenny Opera (Pabst)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
Viaggio in Italia (Rossellini)
Gertrud (Dreyer)
Sans soleil (Marker)

La dolce vita (Fellini)
I Am Cuba (Kalatozov)
Greed (von Stroheim)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
Threepenny Opera (Pabst)
Gertrud (Dreyer)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou)
The Terroriser (Yang)
The River Fuefuki (Kinoshita)
Brand Upon the Brain! (Maddin)

[Winston*]

Something Ozu
Something Cassavetes
Something Fassbinder
Something Mizoguchi
Something Rohmer
Something Bresson
Something Wiseman
Something Tarkvosky
Something Powell and/or Pressburger
Death Race

One down! (I enjoyed it)

[MadMan]

New List:

1. To Live and Die In LA
2. Double Indemmity-100
3. M-91
4. Special-90
5. Being John Malkvoich
6. Wedding Crashers-84
7. El Topo
8. The Last Days of Disco-84 or 83 or wheatever
9. Once
10. Bad Company (its a western, not the crappy Chris Rock movie)
Ratings for ones viewed. Five out of 10 is mediocre, but better than usual.

New List, and I will actually get through all of these:

2011 Film List:

1. Leon: The Professional (1994)-Arriving tomorrow
2. The Conformist (1970)
3. Seven Days in May (1964)
4. Band of Outsiders (1964)
5. The Town (2010)
6. Greenberg (2009)
7. Toy Story 3 (2010)
8. (500) Days of Summer (2009)
9. Best Worst Movie (2009)
10. All The Real Girls (2003)
11. Viridiana (1961)
12. Down By Law (1986)
13. Riffi (1955)
14. Seven (1995)
15. City Lights (1931)

[baby doll]

Before the Revolution (Bertolucci)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
Duelle (une quarantaine) (Rivette)
Hammett (Wenders)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard)
Martha (Fassbinder)
Mélo (Resnais)
Noroît (Rivette)
Out 1: Noli me tangere (Rivette)
Out 1: Spectre (Rivette)
Tih Minh (Feuillade)
The Traveling Players (Angelopoulos)One down!

[Spaceman Spiff]

I have seen the first few episodes of Berlin Alexanderplatz, and it is fairly righteous. I imagine you'll dig it quite muchly.

[elixir]

I'll play.

1. The Mother and The Whore
2. Scenes From A Marriage
3. High School (1968)
4. Berlin Alexanderplatz
5. Any Tarkovsky movie
6. Kes
7. Band of Outsiders
8. Shoah
9. The Magnificent Ambersons
10. Germany Year Zero

11. Peter Panchali (or any Ray film)
12. Nashville (or another Altman film that isn't Gosford Park)
13. Any Cassavetes movie
14. The Double Life of Vernoique
15. A Nos Amours
16. Ikiru

Okay, need to stop adding until I cross some of these off.

[Ivan Drago]

1. The Elephant Man
2. The Piano Teacher
3. The Apartment (Monica Bellucci/Vincent Cassel version)
4. Gojira
5. Seven Samurai
6. Yojimbo
7. Fanny and Alexander
8. The Machinist
9. Manderlay
10. Labyrinth

[B-side]

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)
Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
The General (Keaton/Bruckman, 1926)
Scenes from a Marriage TV (Bergman, 1973)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975)
Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos, 1995)
Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, 1970)
Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
Masculin féminin (Godard, 1966)
The Human Condition (Kobayashi, 1959-1961)

The General was OK. Ulysses' Gaze, Johnny Guitar and Masculin féminin were all predictably great.

[Dukefrukem]

My last list is complete


1. Antichrist
2. Avatar
3. Up
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Zombieland
6. The Prestige
7. There Will Be Blood
8. No Country for Old Men
9. City of God
10. The Shawshank Redemption

My new list:

1. On The Waterfront
2. Le Cercle Rouge
3. Diabolique
4. Bad Night
5. 1900
6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: 1932 & 1941
7. The Phantom of the Opera
8. Destiny
9. The Elephant Man
10. DeepStar Six

[Dukefrukem]

1. The Elephant Man
2. The Piano Teacher
3. The Apartment (Monica Bellucci/Vincent Cassel version)
4. Gojira
5. Seven Samurai
6. Yojimbo
7. Fanny and Alexander
8. The Machinist
9. Manderlay
10. Labyrinth

Wicked coincidence that you have The Elephant Man on your list too.

I'd like to point out this is on Instant Watch on Netflix, but it expires march 1st.

[B-side]

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)
Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
The General (Keaton/Bruckman, 1926)
Scenes from a Marriage TV (Bergman, 1973)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975)
Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos, 1995)
Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, 1970)
Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
Masculin féminin (Godard, 1966)
The Human Condition (Kobayashi, 1959-1961)

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)
Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
Scenes from a Marriage TV (Bergman, 1973)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975)
Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, 1970)
The Human Condition (Kobayashi, 1959-1961)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Ruiz, 2010)
The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger, 1948)
Nostos: Il ritorno (Pavioli, 1990)
Heroic Purgatory (Yoshida, 1970)

[endingcredits]

1. The Decalogue (Kieślowski, 1989)
2. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)
3. Serene Velocity (Gehr, 1970)
4. Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard)
5. Play Time (Tati, 1967)
6. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr, 2000)
7. A Woman under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974)
8. The Human Condition (Kobayashi)
9. Satantango (Tarr, 1994)
10. Titicut Follies (Wiseman, 1967)

[dreamdead]

1. MASH
2. Tokyo Sonata
3. Jeanne Dielman
4. La belle noiseuse
5. Holla! If I kill You
6. One Fine Spring Day
7. Mon Oncle
8. Woman in the Dunes
9. The Housemaid (1960 Korean film)
10. Notre musique (haven't seen any of Godard's post-1968 work; figure this is a good starting spot)

1. MASH
2. Jeanne Dielman
3. La belle noiseuse
4. Holla! If I Kill You
5. One Fine Spring Day
6. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
7. Dog Star Man
8. Vagabond
9. Paradise Now
10. Inside Job

[Boner M]

Anyway, my list:

1. Jeanne Dielman
2. The Mother and the Whore
3. Madame de...
4. Pather Panchali
5. The Hustler
6. Memories of Underdevelopment
7. Napoleon (Gance)
8. Shoeshine
9. Vive L'amour
10. Anything by Nagisa Oshima

1. Napoleon (Gance)
2. Shoeshine (De sica)
3. Vive L'amour (Tsai)
4. Anything by Nagisa Oshima (esp. Death by Hanging)
5. Colossal Youth (Costa)
6. Shoah (Lanzmann)
7. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
8. To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch)
9. The Bed You Sleep In (Jost)
10. Evoltion of a Filipino Family (Lav Diaz)

...

[elixir]

How did you watch The Mother and The Whore?!?

[Boner M]

How did you watch The Mother and The Whore?!?
How all the cool kids watch things these days.

[elixir]

How all the cool kids watch things these days.

*has still never torrented anything*

But I want to see it so badly. Pretty sure I'd love it. I don't get why there isn't a DVD out...or at least one that I can find.

[soitgoes...]

La dolce vita (Fellini)
I Am Cuba (Kalatozov)
Greed (von Stroheim)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
Threepenny Opera (Pabst)
Gertrud (Dreyer)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou)
The Terroriser (Yang)
The River Fuefuki (Kinoshita)
Brand Upon the Brain! (Maddin)
Threepenny Opera (Pabst)
Opening Night (Cassavetes)
The Boys from Fengkuei (Hou)
Couer fidèle (Epstein)
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (Maddin)
The Beekeeper (Angelopoulos)
Taipei Story (Yang)
Memories of Matsuko (Nakashima)
Egg (Kaplanoglu)
My Only Sunshine (Erdem)

[Russ]

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (Maddin)
Trust me...you can bump this one down a few hundred notches.

[Derek]

Trust me...you can bump this one down a few hundred notches.

Yes, it's by FAR the worst thing I've seen by Maddin.

[soitgoes...]

Trust me...you can bump this one down a few hundred notches.


Yes, it's by FAR the worst thing I've seen by Maddin.
Yeah, I know. It's the last feature of his I have left to watch. It's more of a completion thing.

[Dukefrukem]

My last list is complete



My new list:

1. On The Waterfront
2. Le Cercle Rouge
3. Diabolique
4. Bad Night
5. 1900
6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: 1932 & 1941
7. The Phantom of the Opera
8. Destiny
9. The Elephant Man
10. DeepStar Six

I need a new list. That seems like a good thing to do at work tomorrow. I'm already checked out. I'm supposed to start my new position on the 14th. What better way to kill a day on Friday?

[elixir]

I'll play.

1. The Mother and The Whore
2. Scenes From A Marriage
3. High School (1968)
4. Berlin Alexanderplatz
5. Any Tarkovsky movie
6. Kes
7. Band of Outsiders
8. Shoah
9. The Magnificent Ambersons
10. Germany Year Zero

11. Peter Panchali (or any Ray film)
12. Nashville (or another Altman film that isn't Gosford Park)
13. Any Cassavetes movie
14. The Double Life of Vernoique
15. A Nos Amours
16. Ikiru

Okay, need to stop adding until I cross some of these off.

Well, got some down. Solyaris was really good, and I'm pretty psyched to check out other Tarkovsky movies (which I think I'll like even more). Kes was great. As was Band of Outsiders. Pather Panchali was very good as well, though a tad disappointing. McCabe and Mrs. Miller is perfect and The Long Goodbye is the shit. A Nos Amours is fantastic. A Woman Under the Influence was emotionally potent, but I suspect I may like other Cassavetes better. Yeah, so very good...I've done quite well for myself. :)

1. The Mother and The Whore
2. Scenes From A Marriage
3. High School (1968)
4. The Marriage of Maria Braun (or some other Fassbinder)
5. Shoah
6. The Magnificent Ambersons
7. Germany Year Zero
8. Nashville
9. The Double Life of Vernoique
10. Ikiru
11. Notorious
12. In a Lonely Place
13. Three Colors: Red
14. Come and See
15. Viridiana

I've found The Mother and The Whore on youtube! (If anyone wants the link, PM me). And Shoah, too.

[SirNewt]

1. Napoleon ( new restoration )

Please Coppola just die so I can see this movie. I'm sorry it doesn't need your daddy's score anymore.

2. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemun

No idea how I'm going to get to see this but Mizoguchi is my favorite.

3. Youth of the Beast or Branded to Kill
4. Playtime
5. L'avventura
6. Rushmore
7. Woman in the Dunes
8. The Thief of Baghdad (1940 )
9. Dark City
10. La notte

[dmk]

I made one of these lists last year and only ended up seeing 3/17 (The Movie Orgy/Flight to Fury/Stan posiadania), the latter two being kind of meh.


Jacques Rivette's Out 1: Spectre ('74)
Maurice Pialat's La maison des bois ('71)
Maurice Pialat's Le garçu ('95)
Tom Noonan's Wang Dang ('99)
Erick Ifergan's Johnny 316 ('98)
Jerry Lewis' The Day the Clown Cried ('72)
Noah Baumbach's Mr. Jealousy ('97)
Terrence Malick's Lanton Mills ('69)
Krzysztof Zanussi's Ways in the Night ('79)
Skolimowski Sons' The Hollow Men ('93)
Laurence Harvey's The Ceremony ('63)
Andy Warhol's Blue Movie ('69)
Patricia Mazuy's Peaux de vaches ('89)
Eduardo de Gregorio's La Mémoire Courte ('79)


Yeah, that's 14, deal with it.

[endingcredits]

1. The Decalogue (Kieślowski, 1989)
2. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)
3. Serene Velocity (Gehr, 1970)
4. Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard)
5. Play Time (Tati, 1967)
6. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr, 2000)
7. A Woman under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974)
8. The Human Condition (Kobayashi)
9. Satantango (Tarr, 1994)
10. Titicut Follies (Wiseman, 1967)

1. The Decalogue (Kieślowski, 1989)
2. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)
3. Serene Velocity (Gehr, 1970)
4. Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard)
5. Play Time (Tati, 1967)
6. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr, 2000)
7. A Woman under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974)
8. The Human Condition (Kobayashi)
9. Satantango (Tarr, 1994)
10. Titicut Follies (Wiseman, 1967)

[elixir]

1. The Mother and The Whore
2. Scenes From A Marriage
3. High School (1968)
4. The Marriage of Maria Braun (or some other Fassbinder)
5. Shoah
6. The Magnificent Ambersons
7. Germany Year Zero
8. Nashville
9. The Double Life of Veronique
10. Ikiru
11. Notorious
12. In a Lonely Place
13. Three Colors: Red
14. Come and See
15. Viridiana


1. The Mother and The Whore
2. Scenes From A Marriage
3. Shoah
4. The Magnificent Ambersons
5. Germany Year Zero
6. Ikiru
7. Notorious
8. In a Lonely Place
9. Come and See
10. Viridiana

[MadMan]

1. Leon: The Professional (1994)-95
2. The Conformist (1970)-95
3. Seven Days in May (1964)-95
4. Band of Outsiders (1964)
5. The Town (2010)
6. Greenberg (2009)
7. Toy Story 3 (2010)-On Instant Viewing, I think
8. (500) Days of Summer (2009)-100
9. Best Worst Movie (2009)
10. All The Real Girls (2003)-95
11. Viridiana (1961)
12. Down By Law (1986)-93
13. Riffi (1955)
14. Seven (1995)-100
15. City Lights (1931)-100

I would have completed said list had Netflix not jacked up their prices and forced me to Instant Viewing. Still, I got through the ones with ratings attached.

[Melville]

I've only seen one movie on my list (Mauvais sang) in the three years since I last updated it. But I've been on a movie-watching spree recently. New list to further the spree:

1. Satantango
2. La notte
3. The Time to Live and the Time to Die
4. The Dekalog
5. Gamlet
6. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
7. The Fire Within
8. My Friend Ivan Lapshin
9. Van Gogh
10. La commune (Paris, 1871)

[Boner M]

1. Napoleon (Gance)
2. Shoeshine (De sica) ***
3. Vive L'amour (Tsai)
4. Anything by Nagisa Oshima (esp. Death by Hanging)
5. Colossal Youth (Costa) ***
6. Shoah (Lanzmann)
7. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
8. To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch)
9. The Bed You Sleep In (Jost)
10. Evolution of a Filipino Family (Lav Diaz)

New list:

1. A Brighter Summer Day (Yang)
2. Napoleon (Gance)
3. Vive L'amour (Tsai)
4. any Oshima (esp. Death by Hanging)
5. Shoah (Lanzmann)
6. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
7. To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch)
8. The Bed You Sleep In (Jost)
9. Evolution of a Filipino Family (Lav Diaz)
10. Touki Bouki (Mambéty)

[Dukefrukem]

1. On The Waterfront
2. Le Cercle Rouge
3. Diabolique
4. Bad Night
5. 1900
6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: 1932 & 1941
7. The Phantom of the Opera
8. Destiny
9. The Elephant Man
10. DeepStar Six

I need a new list. That seems like a good thing to do at work tomorrow. I'm already checked out. I'm supposed to start my new position on the 14th. What better way to kill a day on Friday?

[elixir]

1. The Mother and The Whore best movie evah
2. Scenes From A Marriage
3. Shoah
4. The Magnificent Ambersons
5. Germany Year Zero
6. Ikiru
7. Notorious
8. In a Lonely Place
9. Come and See
10. Viridiana
Add in La maison des bois because duh.

Kinda pathetic I've only seen one of these (tho my list would be tots different now); need to get back on that canon wagon.

[baby doll]

Before the Revolution (Bertolucci)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
Duelle (une quarantaine) (Rivette)
Hammett (Wenders)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard)
Martha (Fassbinder)
Mélo (Resnais)
Noroît (Rivette)
Out 1: Noli me tangere (Rivette)
Out 1: Spectre (Rivette)
Tih Minh (Feuillade)
The Traveling Players (Angelopoulos)I have Duelle (une quarantaine) and Martha on my laptop, and I bought a DVD of Hammett (and the five-hour version of Until the End of the World) earlier this week, but I'm not sure when I'll get to them.

[B-side]

I've only seen one movie on my list (Mauvais sang) in the three years since I last updated it. But I've been on a movie-watching spree recently. New list to further the spree:

6. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

You'll love this, btw. Fantastic film.

[B-side]

New list:

10. Touki Bouki (Mambéty)

This is a great film.

[Raiders]

Jeanne Dielman, or anything by Chantal Akerman
Floating Clouds, or anything by Mikio Naruse
Shinji Aoyama's Eureka
Tokyo Sonata
Nathalie Granger or India Song
Robert Aldrich's Twilight's Last Gleaming
A City of Sadness
Onibaba or Naked Island; anything by Kaneto Shindo
Love Streams
F.W. Murnau's Burning Soil

New list:

1. Eureka (Aoyama)
2. Anything by Raoul Ruiz
3. A City of Sadness (Hou)
4. A Gentle Woman (Bresson)
5. Parade (Tati)
6. Nathalie Granger or India Song (Duras)
7. Last of the Comanches (De Toth)
8. Three on a Couch (Lewis)
9. The Other Side of the Wind (Welles / Bogdanovich) whenever it is actually friggin' finished
10. We Can't Go Home Again (Nick Ray)

[Gizmo]

straight from imdb:

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
2. City of God (2002)
3. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
4. The Pianist (2002)
5. The Lives of Others (2006)
6. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
7. The Great Dictator (1940)
8. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
9. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
10. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

[Melville]

2. Napoleon (Gance)
3. Vive L'amour (Tsai)
7. To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch)
Awesome, good, and great movies. Which version of Napoleon are you aiming for?


You'll love this, btw. Fantastic film.
Yeah, Endingcredits made it sound like the best thing ever. My expectations are high.

[B-side]

Yeah, Endingcredits made it sound like the best thing ever. My expectations are high.

What happened to him, anyway? Did he die?

[Melville]

What happened to him, anyway? Did he die?
He's around here somewhere. He occasionally rates movies in the 2012 database.

[B-side]

He's around here somewhere. He occasionally rates movies in the 2012 database.

Not good enough. Tell him to post more.

[dreamdead]

1. MASH
2. Jeanne Dielman
3. La belle noiseuse
4. Holla! If I Kill You
5. One Fine Spring Day
6. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
7. Dog Star Man
8. Vagabond
9. Paradise Now
10. Inside Job

1. Jeanne Dielman
2. La belle noiseuse
3. One Fine Spring Day
4. Dog Star Man
5. Vagabond
6. Paradise Now
7. Blow Out
8. Earth
9. La Rupture
10. Samsara

[Dukefrukem]

It's January 20th, and I've just watched for the first time, the Great Dictator and Singing in the Rain. 2017 here we come!

1. Amadeus
2. Ben-Hur (1959)
3. Doctor Zhivago
4. Gone With the Wind
5. The Deer Hunter
6. The French Connection
7. The Ten Commandments
8. Toy Soldiers
9. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
10. Grand Hotel

[baby doll]

Before the Revolution (Bertolucci)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
Duelle (une quarantaine) (Rivette)
Hammett (Wenders)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard)
Martha (Fassbinder)
Mélo (Resnais)
Noroît (Rivette)
Out 1: Noli me tangere (Rivette)
Out 1: Spectre (Rivette)
Tih Minh (Feuillade)
The Traveling Players (Angelopoulos)Ten non-European films on my to-watch list:

True Heart Susie (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
Scenes of City Life (Yuan Muzhi, 1935)
The Saga of Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg, 1953)
The Brick and the Mirror (Ebrahim Golestan, 1965)
Death by Hanging (Oshima Nagisa, 1968)
The Middleman (Satyajit Ray, 1975)
Ceddo (Ousmane Sembène, 1977)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1991)
Evolution of a Filipino Family (Lav Diaz, 2004)

[Melville]

1. Satantango
2. La notte
3. The Time to Live and the Time to Die
4. The Dekalog
5. Gamlet
6. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
7. The Fire Within
8. My Friend Ivan Lapshin
9. Van Gogh
10. La commune (Paris, 1871)
I've owned Satantango and the Russian Hamlet for years and never watched them. I fail at movie watching.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. The Travelling Players (1975)
2. Titicut Follies (1967)
3. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
4. Poil de carotte (1932)
5. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
6. A City of Sadness (1989)
7. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
8. An Actor's Revenge (1962)
9. America, America (1963)
10. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

I've seen most of these now.

1. The Travelling Players (1975)
2. Titicut Follies (1967) ****
3. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
4. Poil de carotte (1932) ****
5. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) ***
6. A City of Sadness (1989)
7. A Brighter Summer Day (1991) ***
8. An Actor's Revenge (1962) **½
9. America, America (1963) ****
10. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) ***½

The more I've learned about Travelling Players, the less I've wanted to see it. I'm still open to seeing Celine and Julie some day, but it's frickin' long.

[Peng]

So 10 acclaimed/classic/cannon films I haven't seen yet:

1. Tokyo Story
2. The Searchers
3. Andrei Rublev
4. L’Avventura
5. Ordet
6. Au hasard Balthazar
7. Grand Illusion
8. Pather Panchali
9. The Wild Bunch
10. Pickpocket

[Spinal]

1. Antichrist
2. La commune
3. Ordet
4. Wages of Fear
5. Saraband
6. Shoeshine
7. The New World
8. Little Big Man
9. Make Way for Tomorrow
10. An Angel at My Table

After 7+ years ...

1. Antichrist ****
2. La commune [still haven't seen it]
3. Ordet [still haven't seen it]
4. Wages of Fear [still haven't seen it]
5. Saraband [still haven't seen it]
6. Shoeshine ****
7. The New World ***1/2
8. Little Big Man [still haven't seen it]
9. Make Way for Tomorrow ***1/2
10. An Angel at My Table [still haven't seen it]

Pathetic.

[Dukefrukem]

I dont think I've felt more anger watching a movie than Gone with the Wind.

[baby doll]

I dont think I've felt more anger watching a movie than Gone with the Wind.Damn yankees, buttin' in where they shouldn't.

[Rico]

I've yet to see a single Pedro Almodovar film but I've been meaning to correct that.